The Little Mermaid (1989)
Directed by John Musker
This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
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“The Little Mermaid” is the first animated fairy tale to surface from the Disney studio since “Sleeping Beauty” in 1959.
Sleeping Beauty would be the last Disney feature with fully hand-inked cels, and the last fairy tale princess movie until 1989’s The Little Mermaid .
Mary Poppins has often been suggested as Walt Disney's favorite amongst all the many films he produced in his 65 years of life; whether that's so, it certainly remains one of the best films ever produced by his company, indeed one of the best American films of the 1960s, just about the only film that can be idly compared to The Wizard of Oz as a masterpiece of family cinema, in terms of its technical ambition, emotional honesty, joyous energy, and glorious soundtrack (to me, Mary Poppins vies with only Pinocchio and Beauty and the Beast and perhaps The Little Mermaid as having the best songs of any Disney feature).
The Fox and the Hound, released in 1981, would prove to be Disney's last solid effort prior to their current renaissance (which kicked off a few years later with the release of The Little Mermaid), and there's little doubt that the film possesses the feel and tone of the studio's earlier work.
After that is my favorite of all the extras, a seven-minute animated short film, "The Little Match Girl," also based on a Hans Christian Andersen short story and set to the music of Alexander Borodin's String Quartet No. 2 in D major.